Dr. Bancroft graduated with honors from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He was inducted into the nationally prestigious honors society “Omicron Kappa Upsilon”. After receiving his D.M.D. he completed a General Practice Residency at Hackensack Hospital. Following four years of general practice he entered the orthodontic residency program at UMDNJ and gained his orthodontic specialty certificate. In 1989 Dr. James Bancroft opened his Bergen County orthodontic practice in Waldwick, New Jersey with a second office in Teaneck, New Jersey. Dr. Bancroft is a clinical attending professor at Hackensack University Medical Center and instructs the dental residents on the latest orthodontic treatment techniques.